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The Deepest Sea of Discontent
You found a place of bloodshot red despair
The vastest deepest sea of discontent
And now I find that I must journey there
To make up all the time we never spent
You bathe in waters cold as I come near
You hardly recognize my aging face
It pains me like a plague to see you here
To see how far you've fallen from your place
I plead for your return to our domain
Although I know the answer must be no
For here you've found the ultimate in pain
And no one can be with you where you go
A last embrace a wordless soft goodbye
Begins my journey under saddest sky
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The Great Green Room
04:24
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The Great Green Room
In the Great Green Room
Where the tide drowns up the moon
In the company of a man
Wearing black and sleeping soon
And the air is like you pulse
Only surfacing when it must
In the bed in the Great Greed Room
You can see the words inscribed and the words say
"I am leaving and I'll induce grieving
And I'm happier than when...
The answer burning with the tide all turning
With miraculous intent
I desired just to be expired
And until I get my wish
Try if you can with a book in your hand
And lead me on to this"
On the second floor
Is the hush-hush paramour
And the man who deals in flowers
And he cries knowing not what for
And the cross around his neck
Hanging down it burns her chest
And the smoke that's pouring forth
Is a message that he knows and the smoke is
Black and bellow and the sulphur yellow
Of a mission long ago
And the scream is skewing everything he's doing
And he sees it's time to sow
And it's time to sever all the things he'd ever
Wanted in this life of his
With his mind encoding and the room exploding
He will see just how it is
In the mind of man
His right because he can
Take all under the moon
And he watched as the innocent ran
And his heart is pumping slow
Telling him which way to go
To destroy the soul of man
With a swift and heavy sword and the sword is
Dripping bloody red as anybody
Who was there when it was drawn
At the final battle at the shake and rattle
And the roll of thunder gone
In the stormy weather sweeping field and heather
Every cemetery torn
And the dirt was raining down with all containing
In the place where I was born
In a cradle of wood
Against the bars she stood
And before her purple eyes
Thinking only if she could
So no one would attend
Now it's far too late to mend
This dream of broken wood
With the child deep inside and the baby
Pulls and whimpers leaving itself limper
Than its mother's call to war
With a scream not comic then the child's stomach
Empties out unto the floor
And the floor is bluer and the word is newer
Than a light inside the tomb
Of a long dead prophet who had made well off it
In the middle of the Great Green Room
I am leaving and I'll induce grieving
And I'm happier than then
Answers falling and I'm here left calling
Knowing now what she had meant
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3. |
Drowning
03:27
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Drowning
This is the scream of a man who has no voice
Bolted shut and his tongue cut out dry
This is the path of a man who has no choice
Covered in blisters and blistered by water
And drowning himself in the hope that he’ll die
This is the end of a day with no time
Passing by like a blinded girl in the sea
This is the song of a mute man as he chimes
Loving the torture and torturing everything
Lost in the sun till there’s nothing left for me
So here’s my goodbye to the lost and desperate
Long out of place and I’m not coming back
This is the vision that flashes not separate
Just like a film of the film of the dust
As it lifts off of me as the picture fades to black
This is the pain and the failure inside
When I run to the edge of the world
This is the universe all in my eyes
I can see I can see I can see I can see
And it looks like a film of the film of the dust
As it lifts off of me as the picture fades to black
And it looks like a night that I want to forget
But it’s always the same when the daylight fades to black
Here’s my goodbye to the lost and desolate
Fall out of grace and I cannot go back
This is the voice as it echoes me desperate
Like when you said “You are everything I lack.”
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Something Dire
03:30
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Something Dire
I thought I'd gotten over this
Day after day after a hundred years
What good is it now
I tremble to contain
Everything promised and never received
Everyone said that they wouldn't leave
Everything promised and never received
Stop me if I let my tongue spew fire
Kill me if you cannot reach me
Stop me if I'm doing something dire
Kill me if you cannot teach me
I thought I would endure it all
I cannot see what i had wanted then
What have I done
The stains of yesterday
All of the time I was lying down
Backwards and forwards and bleeding sound
All of the time I was lying down
Stop me if I let my tongue spew fire
Kill me if you cannot reach me
Stop me if I'm doing something dire
Kill me if you cannot teach me
But I'll stay again
I can wait some more
I can stay right here for what's in store
I can hold my own
Glowing like a rose
I will stay right here until you go
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Quartering
03:49
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Quartering:
As we lie on the voodoo of kings and their lies
Like an acid outburst, worms empty your eyes
And it’s hot as an ulcer and it’s dry as my tongue
And I’m making a promise to let her die young
Can I stop this evolving, this my Hamlet Machine?
Falling coasting bleeding moaning writhing running dying
Into my hands, into my dream
And then the withered man draws out his gun
See his revolver twitch—we weren’t anyone
Here is the house where I live, he said
Why are you coming for me?
A mountain a bridge you’re splitting your life
The hail of the traveler, me
This is the hill with no summit, boy
Only the death of a fool
Strike your end and you'll be gone
The laughter was everything cruel
As we lie on the bodies of those whom we seek
We wonder the purpose of climbing up high
The peak always growing the wind always blowing
We see with a stone, we cry
Paranoia how I miss you
The pain of serenity?
But when you're lost, exhausted
Knock the door, you’ll know it’s me
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Mother's Blood
03:31
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Mother’s Blood
Swaddled in mother’s blood
Your armor for today
It’s a boy new and icy cold
Weight of Earth
Hungry birth
Conflagration’s prey
L’homme armé doibt on doubter
On a fait partout crier
Que chascun se viegne armer
D’un haubregon de fer
You my son my weakness here
Cast you off
You my strength my source of fear
Cast you off
You my heart and you my life
Cast you off
On a journey take my strife
Cast you off from me
Swaddled in father’s tears
Some things never change
It’s a quest in my cowardice
In my place
Burns my face
Road ahead is strange
I force this upon you
Forced on me as well
No more forgiving now
Built in my own cell
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Feet of Clay
03:26
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Feet of Clay
It seems tonight I’ve run out of words
The pestering beings that I cannot find
Though countless sensations of sadness and fear
Rip their way from my loins up the spine
It seems tonight I’ve run out of space
Malevolent faces and walls bearing down
And there’s no one so constant and real as to hear
My babble of havoc abound
So hello strange and silent boy
With skin a lead and gold alloy
My feet of clay you built me high
My jaw is shut and you ask why
With no hello and no goodbye
I turn away from joy
It seems tonight they get what they want
A servant a slave of labor subject
To study the mania not in my head
But they somehow to me still connect
It seems tonight I have grappled my way
On a circus wheel spinning to carry me home
The illusion of progress is visually false
And I’m washed to the rocks by the foam
So twitch and scream for once don’t open up
So gnash and lash and cry you’ve had enough
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8. |
The Phoenix's Last Stand
04:39
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The Phoenix's Last Stand
Taken with a grain of salt
A grain of sand
I can now recall
The Phoenix's last stand
Behind the glass
A shelter for the tears
Another option
Unexplored appears
Waiting for the rain
To carry him once more
Quietly he closes
Yet another door
Another thousand years
Is really not that long
This is my last stand
And you did nothing wrong
Wings are broken
Move them anyway
Pigmentation gone
But that's okay
He will try to fly
Will not give in
But she has wrapped
Her arms beneath his skin
This at his request
They are so much the same
His smile is the final seal
He will not try again
Slowly he retreats
The infantry disbands
And hangs their heads to see
The Phoenix's last stand
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Famine of the Soul
04:15
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Famine Of The Soul:
I see good spirits and I see bad
I see friends that I never had
Too many broken to say the words
Here is the time and the sound I heard
In the times when I'm asleep
I hear voices call a name
Is it me or is it you
Who is making me insane?
Too close to slip away
I feel no pain anymore
In the dream, there were seven slain
But I know you wanted more
It was an alibi of yours
After the blood had run its course
Tears of hysteria fall free
What did the angel do to me?
All alone in sweat-filled night
Held together by a string
And it's pulling far too tight
With the humble past to bring
This is the way the stream runs dry
This is the famine of the soul
They are the ones who now have reached
All the comfort of their goals
When the shackles come unbound
There are fetters that hold strong
That will bind you to the land
And will blur your right and wrong
Nullification of your thoughts
Empty sockets left to rot
Warlike visions, warlock speech
There is a lesson only you can teach
And when hope is dead and gone
Don't come running back to me
You can't find me with your trust
Only then will I hear your plea
Now you've seen the things that I have seen
And felt the sterile serenity
A sucking void that you will enter
Ubiquitous now 'cause you didn't listen
No, you didn't listen
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10. |
An Aftermath
03:30
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An Aftermath
It was all so real
The time the day so pure
A final word a smile
Intentions still unsure
But I can make one promise
Sent away from you
Trading bliss for knowledge
Of what I pursue
You have never made me feel so sure of what I want
To not appear and not explain and act like I forgot
Giving in the time to answer, just leave on the light
I have hope that you will sleep as well as me tonight
It was all so rapid
A word into the next
Talking about creation
And leaving me perplexed
But I will heed the wisdom
Of letting go my thoughts
Making now alive
What formerly was not
And though it’s temporary
I find I want to smile
So here is to the time today
And maybe sometime later
In a while
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